What is the one thing I want most for Harvest? To grow into a megachurch, to have a huge budget, to be popular, to have a snazzy building? ... no, none of these ... not even close.
I pray CHRIST for Harvest.
Christ foundational.
Belief in Christ over guilt-prone behavior.
Belief in Christ exclusively.
Christ's righteousness and not our own.
Christ exalted.
Christ well-rooted.
Christ bearing fruit in our lives.
Christ sending us.
Christ humbling us.
Christ receiving increasing glory from us.
Listen, we reside in a culture that loves it some "me-church". "I want this style, I want that ministry, I want yonder location, I want to see suits, I want to see sandals, I want to see people just like me, etc."
What is lacking in these oh-so-common "me-church-isms"? Christ!
Psalm 1 and 2 are foundational for our understanding of Christ. I loved preaching Psalm 1 on Sunday and am loving preparing Psalm 2 right now! (I had to stop and let you know!). The church must be a gathering of people critically trusting in Christ-alone. To be about anything else is something far less and fearfully idolatrous.
Christianity isn't a laundry list of rules like some boot-camp religion. Christianity is righteousness before God because of real faith in the righteous One - Jesus Christ.
"FOR CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED ONCE FOR SINS, THE RIGHTEOUS FOR THE UNRIGHTEOUS, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH AND MADE ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT." 1 Peter 3:18
Harvest, I pray CHRIST for you!
Raleigh, I pray CHRIST for you!
Nations, I pray CHRIST for you!
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Posted by Mike Willis on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.